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Virtualization - Wiki

Physical. Virtual. Cloud. Your IT infrastructure is changing to support the needs of the business – and you’ve got to squeeze every drop of value from your investments. When it comes to delivering efficiency and optimizing computing capacity, no IT management software company does that better than Quest. Our integrated portfolio of solutions simplifies the management of your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Quest is the market leader in virtualization and cloud management, with solutions spanning server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and cloud automation that support multiple hypervisor platforms.

Quest is Simplicity at Work – choose your hypervisor platforms, then choose Quest.

Dell and Quest offer a variety of both product and services offerings:

Dell | Quest Products and Services

Quest vRanger product family speeds VMware backup and replication while dramatically reducing storage requirements. Simplify your disaster recovery plans for vSphere with one-pass ESX / ESXi backup that includes granular restore capabilities across files, objects and applications. Improve disaster recovery plans on site or at a remote site with efficient VMware replication and easier access during data protection efforts.

Quest vFoglight offers unmatched visibility to resolve VMware ESX and Hyper-V performance management issues and drastically reduces costs. It is also the only solution on the market that provides powerful virtual infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback, Hyper-V and VMware management all from a single downloadable solution.

Quest vOptimizer Pro is the only product on the market that can reclaim over allocated virtual storage (shrink VMDKs) and perform 64K partition alignments to significantly improve VM I/O performance. vOptimizer Pro reduces the cost, time, and risk of managing virtual storage.Provides visibility of the total amount and value of over-allocated VM storage, reclaims wasted VM storage (shrinking VMDK disk files) for use by other applications and business units, automates the resizing of VMs -- either larger or smaller -- to cut administration time, prevents VM outages due to storage shortages and improves VM I/O performance by up to 15% through 64K partition block alignment.